Tree removal in Bonne Terre, MO

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near Bonne Terre that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 1, 2023; August 31, 2021; and June 1, 2019. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,820 households live in Bonne Terre. About seven in ten homes are detached houses and about six in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1963.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 12 miles from Bonne Terre, averages 104 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 34 at or below 20°F.

Ice, snow and broken limbs

Source: NOAA Climate Normals

Call the electric utility first and treat the line as live. EIA lists 3 electric utilities with service territory in St. Francois County, among them Union Electric Co and Citizens Electric Corporation; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024